Daily Dispatches

8p ET Sunday, October 30, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Last week The New York Times published several
long reports examining what it considers the high
social and environmental costs of gold mining.
If you haven't already seen them, you can find
them here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/international/24GOLD.html

7:57p ET Monday, October 31, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch below seems to be the first news
service story that recognizes the importance of hedging
-- sales of borrowed gold -- in regard to Barrick Gold's
proposal to acquire Placer Dome. But the Reuters story
doesn't quite reach the insight about the proposal that
was offered tonight by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in his

4:18p ET Sunday, October 30, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The silver coin legislation that the Reuters story
below says has passed the Mexican Senate is not,
GATA is told, the same version of the legislation
being advocated by Mexico's leading silver advocate,
Hugo Salinas-Price. But the story shows that the
silver coin issue is very much alive.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

11:47p ET Thursday, October 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The story appended here from Thursday's London Telegraph
about the opposition of the Silver Users Association to a
silver bullion investment fund seems important for three
reasons:

First, it publicizes the likelihood of a silver shortage and
thus may spark investment interest regardless of whether
the silver bullion investment fund is started.